If you’d told me a couple of weeks ago that I’d be meeting with representatives of the U.S. Army here at Comic-Con, I’d probably have been really, really confused. But I did, and it all made sense: They were there promoting new …

Last November, I wrote about TouchFire, a Kickstarter-funded gizmo that aimed to make iPad input comfier, faster and more accurate by letting you type on a clear piece of silicone rubber with cushioned “keys” that sit on top of …

Richard Gaywood is a blogger at TUAW, one of my favorite Apple sites. In a new post, he pokes at a controversy which I thought had pretty much died down: Is the iPad good for content creation as well as content consumption?

Back in April, a company called Next Issue Media launched its digital-magazine app. A joint venture of five big publishers–Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp and TIME’s owner, Time Inc.–it bundled a bunch of famous …

The Mozilla Foundation may be synonymous with Firefox, but its e-mail client, Thunderbird, is just as venerable. However, the developer of open-source software has concluded that Thunderbird is as good as it’s going to get–or at …

We may still be waiting for Windows 8, but it’s already accomplished one thing: It’s become the most surprising version of Windows ever. Even the pricing, it turns out, is a major departure from past editions.

As CNET’s Lance Whitney is reporting, the latest browser market-share numbers from Net Applications show that Internet Explorer’s once-overwhelming lead is slipping. Except–well, the report still shows that Microsoft’s browser …

I’ve been going to Comic-Con in San Diego off and on–but mostly on–since 1988. Back then, 8000 people turned out, and it seemed like an awful lot at the time. This year, something in the neighborhood of 125,000 will attend from …

I’ve logged plenty of hours on Android phones, starting with the very first one, the remarkably rudimentary G1, back in 2008. But the phones in question have always been backups to my main handset (which, since mid-2008, has been …